Google made an unusual choice yesterday when they decided to skip Easter and dedicate their daily "doodle" to a different cause.
The search engine mammoth decided to devote Sunday March 31 to left activist Cesar Chavez, who co-founded the United Farm Workers and who would have turned 86 years old yesterday.
Conservatives hopped all over the issue.
"While two billion Christians around the world celebrate Easter Sunday on this 31st day of March, Google uses its famous doodle search logo art to mark the birth of left-wing labor leader Cesar Chavez," wrote Michelle Malkin in Twitchy. "It sure has a way of rubbing their politics in people's noses."
"I thought the Chavez-google thing was a hoax or an early April Fool's Day prank. Are they just going to leave that up there all day?" tweeted Fox News contributor Dana Perino.
Google defended itself by saying it reserves the spot for historical figures and events. "We enjoy celebrating holidays at Google, but, as you may imagine, it's difficult for us to choose which events to highlight in our site," the Google press team told Mercury News.
A quick search showed that Google has never honored Easter, except for an egg drawing in 2000.
President Obama decided to dedicate March 31 to Cesar Chavez in 2011.
"Through boycotts and fasts, he led others on a path of nonviolence conceived in careful study of the teachings of St. Francis Assisi and Mahatma Ghandi, and in the powerful example of Martin Luther King," the presidential proclamation said of the Arizona-born civil-rights leader.
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